KEY ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW ENGLAND

COLONIES

BY: HISTORIAN VIVIANE HARLE

ALL THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES/FOUNDING

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut were all founded for different reasons.

New Hampshire was founded by proprietors for trading and fishing.

Massachusetts founded for religious freedom by puritans and separatists.

Rhode Island founded by Roger Williams for religious freedom.

Connecticut was founded by Thomas Hooker for religious freedom.

ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW

ENGLAND COLONIES

the New England Colonies consisted of

subsistence farming, shipbuilding industries,

cod industries, grain mills & saw mills, and

lots of trade. All of these economic

characteristics of the New England Colonies

are tied to mercantilism some how.

trade

tobacco

POLITICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW

ENGLAND COLONIES

It was originally settled for money in

Jamestown, but as it grew people like Roger

William’s settled it for religious freedom and to

make money off of the economic

characteristics of the new England colonies.

Roger

William

Jamestown

SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW ENGLAND

COLONIES

The New England Colonies were very, very religious. The second colony to be settled (Massachusetts, Plymouth) was settled for religious freedom, and so were many settlements after that. This is were the thoughts of religious freedom and education came about.

Separatists and

puritans

Religious

freedom

THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES GOVERNMENT

The separatists who settled Massachusetts wrote the Mayflower compact-first written contract in the New Colonies.

People in New England would all come together to vote at the town hall, which was the center of their government.

This form of voting is an example of direct democracy.

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was the first constitution that gave people voting rights.

Based on “City on a Hill”, Puritans worked hard to gain respect from others as a group of people that thrive.

Puritans were brought down by the Salem Witch Trials. This served as a lesson to many people to forgive others and not to accuse people of being witches.

no more witches

The New England Colonies were the first English colonies in North

America, and are were the United States History had started.

THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES